- Request no. 39052. Received: 01/10/2022, Resolved: 27/10/2022
Low Traffic Neighbourhoods
Request for the most up-to-date information of all LTNs measures, that have been put in the borough such one-ways, closed roads, restricted turns, bollard, gate, gap, cycle filler, bus gate.
Files
- Request no. 39055. Received: 01/10/2022, Resolved: 20/10/2022
Smoking Ban Near Hospital Buildings
How many £50 fixed penalty notices and how many court fines of up to £1,000 have been issued in the council area from when the legislation came into force on September 5 until September 30?
Files
- Request no. 39056. Received: 01/10/2022, Resolved: 02/11/2022
Safety First Ice Cleats
Has the Local Authority purchased any “Ice Cleats in the last 3 years? How many of your employees were injured last year due to slip, trips or falls in icy/snowy conditions? Which department do these employees work in?
Files
- Request no. 39062. Received: 02/10/2022, Resolved: 27/10/2022
Redundant IT Equipment
Information to your current process for recycling and disposing of redundant IT equipment. Details of steps involved in current method, including how you store them, if collected then by who/when and what paperwork you receive ensure Data Protection.
Files
- Request no. 39063. Received: 02/10/2022, Resolved: 26/10/2022
Council Tax Reduction
Please send the rules and procedures used to determine eligibility criteria for a council tax reduction.
Files
- Request no. 39064. Received: 03/10/2022, Resolved: 26/10/2022
Business Rates Credits
Please can you email me a list of September/October (most current) business rates credits you currently hold for businesses?
Files
- Request no. 39065. Received: 03/10/2022, Resolved: 01/11/2022
Tram Simulator Cost
1. What was the total cost of this simulator? 2. Any correspondence between Edinburgh Trams Limited and City of Edinburgh Council regarding this simulator.
Files
- Request no. 39069. Received: 03/10/2022, Resolved: 05/10/2022
Primary Care Improvement Fund
Please could you provide me with a copy of the following. The total budget and expenditure of the Primary Care Improvement Fund for each financial year since 2018/19 (including 2022/23 so far) and all other information.
Resolution
This information is held by the NHS.
- Request no. 39070. Received: 03/10/2022, Resolved: 26/10/2022
Call handling
What is the response time for call handling since it is noted that options have changed and has it improved? What measures are available to ensure calls from citizens are responded to promptly. Staffing on duty between 30/9 to 3/10?
Files
- Request no. 39071. Received: 03/10/2022, Resolved: 27/10/2022
Drug overdose prevention facility in Edinburgh
At the full CEC meeting 30 June 2022 the council committed to pursuing a drug overdose prevention facility in Edinburgh. Please provide full information on how this has progressed since that date.
Resolution
A report is due to go to the Policy and Sustainability Committee on 01/11/22 under item 5. This can be viewed on our website.
Files
- Request no. 39072. Received: 03/10/2022, Resolved: 07/11/2022 11:56:00
Angel Event Experience
Please send me a copy of the contract between CEC (or AN Other) apropos Edinburgh's Christmas events. Please also send me a copy of the letter cancelling same and CEC's response to Angel.
- Request no. 39073. Received: 03/10/2022, Resolved: 31/10/2022
Food Waste
For the past 5 academic years up to 2021-22 - The total cost of food waste in your primary and secondary schools? By food waste I am referring to the total cost of school meals that were cooked and prepared but were not served.
Resolution
Unfortunately, we are unable to provide you with the information requested as it is not held by the Council.
- Request no. 39074. Received: 03/10/2022, Resolved: 28/11/2022
School Repairs
For the past five academic years up to 2021-22 The total cost of building repairs in your primary and Secondary schools. I would like a total cost for both primary and secondary per year for the past five years.
Files
- Request no. 39075. Received: 03/10/2022, Resolved: 08/12/2022
School Replacement
List of Primary and Secondary Schools which are over due a new school building? List of schools that are over due for a replacement, the year that they were due to be replaced and the date, that a new school building is due to be finished?
Files
- Request no. 39076. Received: 03/10/2022, Resolved: 31/10/2022
The Woods Centre, Morvenside, Edinburgh
Details of any former uses of site or the immediate surrounding land which may have resulted in contamination of the site. We are interested in former industrial uses, landfilling, materials extraction including mine gases, animal burial grounds.
Files
- Request no. 39077. Received: 03/10/2022, Resolved: 31/10/2022
Fuel Storage Tanks - The Woods Centre, Morvenside
Any information, you may have regarding underground or aboveground fuel storage tanks on the above site.
Resolution
Unfortunately, we are unable to provide you with the information requested as it is not held by the Council.
- Request no. 39079. Received: 03/10/2022, Resolved: 11/10/2022
Sheriffhall Park and Ride Car Park, Edinburgh
We would be grateful if you could retain any and all footage of this accident and also provide us with the CCTV footage.
Resolution
We do not hold this information. Referred to Midlothian Council
- Request no. 39083. Received: 04/10/2022, Resolved: 01/11/2022
Animal Boarding Establishment Licence
Citidog Creche Ltd. relating to premises 206 metres North of Swanston Farm, adjacent to Swanston Road. Details of maximum number of dogs permitted at this Swanston Road site, responsible manager, and issue date of this licence.
Resolution
The maximum number of dogs permitted is 120, the responsible manager is Daniel Purvis-White and the licence will be issued once the final inspection has been carried out.
- Request no. 39086. Received: 04/10/2022, Resolved: 10/10/2022
14 Oxgangs Farm Drive
Please provide a copy of the plans for the split of the garden areas at 14 Oxgangs Farm Drive.
Resolution
Information provided
Files
- Request no. 39087. Received: 04/10/2022, Resolved: 16/11/2022
Appropriate Adults
I am looking for data/statistics or annual reports on the use of appropriate adults, looking at total detentions vs those with an appropriate adult. Specifically looking for pre-pandemic 2019/2020.
Resolution
Please see the report attached.
Files
- Request no. 39088. Received: 04/10/2022, Resolved: 20/10/2022
Overcrowding in Council Properties
The number of households living in overcrowded properties, as defined by Section 325 of the Housing Act 1985 from 2018 to present time.
Resolution
The legislation referred to applies only to England and Wales.
- Request no. 39089. Received: 04/10/2022, Resolved: 01/11/2022
Licensed Equestrian Establishments
The total number, names and business information
Files
- Request no. 39090. Received: 04/10/2022, Resolved: 01/11/2022
Parking Charge Notices
Total number of PCNs issued 2020 to 2022, revenue raised and proportion of PCNs paid within 14 days
Files
- Request no. 39091. Received: 04/10/2022, Resolved: 10/11/2022
Care Packages
Query relating to number of people waiting packages etc for 2022 and previous years.
Files
- Request no. 39092. Received: 05/10/2022, Resolved: 02/11/2022
Annual Safety Inspection - Calder Road, Edinburgh
Copies of all inspections in the last 12 months; the nature of the inspections; record of all defects
Files
- Request no. 39093. Received: 05/10/2022, Resolved: 02/11/2022
Social care assessments
The number of people waiting for social care assessments etc for 2022 and previous years
Files
- Request no. 39094. Received: 05/10/2022, Resolved: 31/10/2022
Care packages and social care assessments
Number of people who have died waiting for care packages and social care assessments - 2022 and previous years
Resolution
We do not hold this information.
Files
- Request no. 39095. Received: 05/10/2022, Resolved: 31/10/2022
Locum, agency and bank staff
How much has been spent, number of shifts work and most expensive shift relating to authority run social care setting- 2022 and previous years
Files
- Request no. 39097. Received: 05/10/2022, Resolved: 20/10/2022
Edinburgh Tram Costs
Costs to Edinburgh taxpayer, Scottish taxpayer and British taxpayer and how much each contributed to the building of Edinburgh Tram
Files
- Request no. 39098. Received: 05/10/2022, Resolved: 01/11/2022
3G Pitch - Forrester High School
Information re design and specification of 3G pitch, current specification status and recommended maintenance programme
Resolution
All of the documents held which are within scope of your request are attached.
Third party personal information has been redacted from the documents provided in compliance with the Data Protection Act 2018.
Files
- Request no. 39103. Received: 05/10/2022, Resolved: 02/11/2022
Clean up costs - Gypsy Brae
The costs involved in a clean up job down at Gypsy Brae
Resolution
This waste was removed by Council staff and the staff costs are already included in the Parks, Cleansing and Waste Disposal budgets. The additional cost to the Council is the haulage and disposal of the waste collected in the region of £11,125.
- Request no. 39106. Received: 05/10/2022, Resolved: 20/10/2022
Capacity - Craigroyston High School
Capacity information - especially S4
Resolution
S1 - 140
S2 - 140
S3 - 140
S4 - 140
S5 - 120
S6 does not have a cap as such but relates to available course choices.
- Request no. 39107. Received: 05/10/2022, Resolved: 02/11/2022
Breach of allergen labelling - Natasha's Law
Number of businesses who have breached labelling restrictions between October 2021 and 2022 and other queries
Files
- Request no. 39109. Received: 06/10/2022, Resolved: 02/11/2022
Economic Impact of Winter Festivals
The workings for the sum and the year they relate to and also for prior years.
Files
- Request no. 39111. Received: 06/10/2022, Resolved: 03/11/2022
Road Defect - Ferry Road
Info relating to Ferry Road - when identified, classification given, when repair carried out and what kind, how many repairs, what does CEC's repair policy say
Files
- Request no. 39113. Received: 06/10/2022, Resolved: 03/11/2022
Road Defect - Ferry Road - Junction with Granton Road
Information requested relating to Ferry Road - when identified, classification given, when repair carried out and what kind, how many repairs, what does CEC's repair policy say
Files
- Request no. 39115. Received: 06/10/2022, Resolved: 31/10/2022
LTN fixed penalty notices
The number of notices issued for breaching LTNs and total value of notices issued for breaching LTNs
Files
- Request no. 39116. Received: 06/10/2022, Resolved: 03/11/2022
Tram Tracks - Waverley Bridge/West Register Street
Information relating to written or electronic communication detailing risk assessments, maintenance, complaints, reports etc for tram tracks.
Files
- Request no. 39118. Received: 06/10/2022, Resolved: 02/11/2022
Microsoft Licences
1. How many employees are there in your organisation 2. What is your Microsoft annual spend for M365 licensing and when is the renewal date 3. How many Frontline licences do you hold 4. What was your cloud computing spend in 2021/22.
Files
- Request no. 39119. Received: 06/10/2022, Resolved: 24/10/2022
ICT Service, Capital and Revenue Spend
Information relating to ICT service, capital spend and revenue spend for each year 2017 to 2022 and budget for 2023.
Files
- Request no. 39138. Received: 06/10/2022, Resolved: 03/11/2022
Potholes and Roads Maintenance
How many potholes are there in this council area? Has the council made any assessment of how much it would cost to fix all the potholes in this area? How much does this council spend on road maintenance, each year since 2017/18?
Files
- Request no. 39139. Received: 06/10/2022, Resolved: 02/11/2022
Microsoft Software Licences
Were your licences relinquished when City of Edinburgh Council initially migrated to M365? If not what happened to them? Advice, contractual provisions or mechanisms held in relation to relinquishing certain perpetual rights.
Files
- Request no. 39140. Received: 06/10/2022, Resolved: 17/11/2022
Vehicle Activated Speed Signage policy
Copies of all guidance, process and policy documentation with relation to the placement of Vehicle Activated Speed Signage (including but not limited to any updated version of the guidance provided in “Vehicle Activated Speed Signs
Files
- Request no. 39141. Received: 06/10/2022, Resolved: 02/11/2022
Levelling Up and Community Ownership Fund
Has the council applied for Round 2 of the UK Government’s Levelling Up Fund? Which projects has the council applied for funding for and for how much? Same questions for UK Government’s Community Ownership Fund.
Files
- Request no. 39142. Received: 06/10/2022, Resolved: 31/10/2022
Contact details
Please could I have the contact details (name/role) of a senior person who looks after the waste and recycling for the Council.
Files
- Request no. 39143. Received: 06/10/2022, Resolved: 02/11/2022
Student Accommodation
How many student accommodation plans have been approved by Edinburgh council with a view for the buildings to be completed by 2025? Antisocial behaviour complaints.
Files
- Request no. 39152. Received: 07/10/2022, Resolved: 07/12/2022
Contract Information - Catering Services
Request for contract data for services around facilities management.
Resolution
Closed - No clarification received.
- Request no. 39153. Received: 07/10/2022, Resolved: 10/07/2023
Providers of Exempt Accommodation
Information in respect of providers of exempt accommodation (regardless of whether they are registered as providers of social housing with the HCA) covering the period of the last 3 financial years (i.e. 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22).
Resolution
Closed - No clarification received.
- Request no. 39154. Received: 07/10/2022, Resolved: 02/11/2022
Fleet List
Fleet list (including registration numbers) for all school transport (home to school to home) and social work vehicles.
Resolution
This information will not be provided.
- Request no. 39156. Received: 07/10/2022, Resolved: 29/11/2022
Trees - Princes Street Gardens
Regarding the proper protection of trees in Princes Street Gardens in regard to the proposed 2022 Christmas Market. The recommendations made, & concerns raised regarding the proposed development.
Resolution
Please see the attached Tree Protection Statement
Files
- Request no. 39157. Received: 07/10/2022, Resolved: 03/11/2022
Licence Plates Spend
The total amount spent by the City of Edinburgh Council in Financial Year 2021-22 on: a] Licence plates for Taxis and Private Hire Cars [including external and internal plates and door stickers] b] Taxi and Private Hire Car Driver badges
Files
- Request no. 39158. Received: 07/10/2022, Resolved: 04/11/2022 11:21:00
Bus Lane Fines
Request for the postcodes (ie the first part of the postcode eg AB11) for each bus lane fine issued in the city in September 2022.
- Request no. 39159. Received: 07/10/2022, Resolved: 11/10/2022
Highway Adoption - Meadow Place Road
Request for a Highways Adoption search at the location shown below, specifically the pavement/grass verge.
- Request no. 39162. Received: 07/10/2022, Resolved: 03/11/2022
Wheelchair Accessible Emergency Accommodation
What accommodation the council owns, or has in place through subcontracting, and is able to provide on an emergency basis for people who use wheelchairs and present as homeless.
Files
- Request no. 39163. Received: 07/10/2022, Resolved: 24/10/2022
Council Tax/ Business Rates Liability Orders
How many Liability Orders for unpaid Council Tax has the council issued in each of the following years - 2018 to 2022? Similarly for unpaid Business Rates.
Resolution
Liability Orders are not used in Scotland for Council Tax or Non-Domestic Rates (Business Rates).
- Request no. 39164. Received: 10/10/2022, Resolved: 19/10/2022
Liberton PS Pupils
I would like to know how many Liberton Primary School pupils live to the west of Kirk Brae.
Resolution
I can advise that there are 191 pupils.
- Request no. 39166. Received: 10/10/2022, Resolved: 16/11/2022
Lanark Road - Traffic Survey
Request for all available data from the traffic monitoring survey conducted on Lanark Road in August 2022.
Files
- Request no. 39167. Received: 07/10/2022, Resolved: 02/11/2022
CA100+ consultation on the strategy for its 'Phase 2'
A copy of the consultation document(s) and any associated correspondence with the initiative or its partner organisations.
- Request no. 39168. Received: 10/10/2022, Resolved: 07/11/2022
Social Housing
Several questions regarding social housing and waiting lists.
Files
- Request no. 39169. Received: 10/10/2022, Resolved: 07/11/2022 16:26:00
Right to education for stateless children
Details of the approach taken towards providing education and other support to displaced Ukrainian children and young people
Files
- Request no. 39170. Received: 10/10/2022, Resolved: 10/11/2022 14:32:00
Parking Tickets - West Register Street
How many parking tickets have been issued in relation to parking at West Register Street due to parking offence code 11 in the past 3 years? Where is the correct ticket machine for West Register Street located?
Files
- Request no. 39171. Received: 10/10/2022, Resolved: 03/11/2022
Number of Christmas market traders
Could you please state the number of businesses that traded at your Christmas market in the following years: 2018, 2019, 2021
Resolution
2018 - 121 stall positions
2019 – 146 stall positions
2021 - 58 stall positions
We are anticipating 70 stall positions at this year’s Edinburgh’s Christmas market.- Request no. 39172. Received: 10/10/2022, Resolved: 17/11/2022
Number of highway licence/permit applications
Please can you provide the number of applications received between 1st April 2021 to 31st March 2022 for the following highway licences/permits
Files
- Request no. 39173. Received: 10/10/2022, Resolved: 25/10/2022
Pupils Pronouns
How many primary and secondary pupils have asked for a change in the pronoun used to refer to them in the last calendar year and so far this year? How many transgender pupils? Council policy on pronouns in schools.
Files
- Request no. 39177. Received: 11/10/2022, Resolved: 08/11/2022
Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children
Several questions in regard to Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children and Young People in the local authority's care.
Files
- Request no. 39179. Received: 11/10/2022, Resolved: 17/10/2022
National Assistance Act or “Paupers funerals
Information regarding National Assistance Act or “Paupers funerals carried (sometimes referred to as 'Public Health' Funerals) where persons who have died with no known next of kin (blood relatives) since 1/8/2022
Files
- Request no. 39185. Received: 12/10/2022, Resolved: 04/11/2022 14:39:00
Portobello Road - Roadworks
Full details of all companies responsible for the work being undertaken on Portobello Road at the Junction with Piershill Square (Piershill square East) immediately prior to & as at the date of 14th December 2019. Name & address.
Files
- Request no. 39189. Received: 11/10/2022, Resolved: 24/10/2022
Beach Closures
Please provide a yearly breakdown of beach closures in your council area as a result of sewage discharge and pollution incidents between 2010 and 2022 to date.
- Request no. 39190. Received: 11/10/2022, Resolved: 16/11/2022
Bodies buried in the wrong location
Over the past ten years, how many reports has the council logged of coffins/bodies buried in the wrong plot? Please breakdown by year and in each case, provide the names of the burial site the remains were originally interred at.
Files
- Request no. 39192. Received: 11/10/2022, Resolved: 08/11/2022
Tranche 2 of the Household Support Fund
How much money was your council granted by the Department for Work and Pensions during tranche 2 of the Household Support fund e.g money granted for 1 April 2022 to 30 September 2022?
Files
- Request no. 39193. Received: 10/10/2022, Resolved: 07/11/2022
North Gyle Road Flooding
I would like to request any information relating to the flooding at North Gyle Road. In addition, I would like to see any email correspondence between Scottish Water and Edinburgh Council about North Gyle Road from 2019 to date.
Resolution
Information provided under the Data Protection Act 2018.
- Request no. 39195. Received: 11/10/2022, Resolved: 03/11/2022
The estimated cost to remove and replace surveillance camera
The estimated cost to remove and replace surveillance cameras made by Hikvision, that are due to be removed from Edinburgh City Council by the end of 2022.
Files
- Request no. 39196. Received: 11/10/2022, Resolved: 24/10/2022
Trams to Newhaven Project Claims
We request any Standard Circulars, procedural advice or protocol arrangements which define the framework within which the relevant officers reach a determination on any final settlement figure.
Resolution
No relevant documentation is held as each claim is handled, and any settlement value is determined, by the loss adjustor (who is acting on a delegated authority basis by / in conjunction with the insurer) or by the insurers directly.
- Request no. 39200. Received: 11/10/2022, Resolved: 03/11/2022
Anti social behaviour of tenants
The number of official public complaints raised in the last 2 years about anti social behaviour of tenants in Edinburgh. A breakdown of how many in total and how many were directly related to short term holiday lets?
Files
- Request no. 39201. Received: 12/10/2022, Resolved: 24/10/2022
Boteco Do Brasil and Paradise Palms
I would like to know if there has been complaints in the past about a noisy fan/refrigerator behind the pubs 'Boteco Do Brasil' and 'Paradise Palms' in Lothian Street.
Files
- Request no. 39202. Received: 12/10/2022, Resolved: 09/11/2022
Lothian Regional Council - Transfer of Assets, Property and Liabilities
Minutes of any meetings held by the former area of Lothian Regional Council directors of finance which relate to the transfer of assets, property and liabilities following the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994.
Resolution
We are unable to provide the information requested as the cost to the Council of locating, retrieving and providing the information far exceeds the statutory maximum of £600.
- Request no. 39210. Received: 13/10/2022, Resolved: 10/11/2022
Eurovision Song Contest Bid 2023
Request for a copy of Edinburgh Council's bid to host Eurovision next year. Can you please release a copy, and any relevant details such as costs incurred and time spent on preparing bid.
Resolution
Please see the attached documents
Files
- Request no. 39213. Received: 13/10/2022, Resolved: 14/12/2022
Overseas Travel
Please provide me with information on overseas travel by all council officers and councillors
Files
- Request no. 39215. Received: 13/10/2022, Resolved: 25/10/2022
75 and Over Living Alone
How many people aged 75 and over were living alone in the Edinburgh City Council region during the year April 1st, 2020- April 1st,2021 and April 1st, 2019- April 1st, 2020?
Files
- Request no. 39217. Received: 13/10/2022, Resolved: 15/11/2022 10:04:00
Complaints - MS Victoria
Please can you provide me with details of any and all concerns and complaints raised by or on behalf of Ukrainian families who are or have been housed on the cruise ship MS Victoria.
Files
- Request no. 39218. Received: 13/10/2022, Resolved: 09/11/2022
New and Improved Relief (Business Growth Accelerator Relief)
Please provide me with a complete and up-to-date list of all properties that have received New and Improved Relief (Business Growth Accelerator Relief), since its inception, from 01/04/2018 and to date.
Files
- Request no. 39220. Received: 14/10/2022, Resolved: 26/10/2022
Homelessness - Ukrainian Refugees
How many individuals have reported as homeless since February 2022.
Resolution
The number of individuals (adults and children) who have been assessed as homeless at the time of your request is 43.
- Request no. 39222. Received: 14/10/2022, Resolved: 10/11/2022
Housing Asylum Seekers, Refugees, Legal and Illegal Migrants
10 questions including - How many individual requests has the Council received from the Home Office to provide housing or accommodation for asylum seekers, refugees, legal migrants and illegal migrants? (1st January 2022 - 14th October 2022).
Files
- Request no. 39224. Received: 14/10/2022, Resolved: 29/11/2022
Asbestos
The number of buildings within the council containing asbestos in 2017 and now in 2022
Files
- Request no. 39226. Received: 14/10/2022, Resolved: 10/11/2022
Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) - Princes Street Footway
Five questions including - Has permission to occupy the adopted road been applied for (by the SSP) and granted by ECC?
Files
- Request no. 39228. Received: 14/10/2022, Resolved: 11/11/2022 16:35:00
Shared Prosperity Fund
How much funding has been allocated to the local authority? Has the local authority submitted an investment plan to the UK Government? If so what projects does this investment plan involve?
Files
- Request no. 39233. Received: 14/10/2022, Resolved: 07/02/2023
Public Money to fund business-focussed events
The amount of funding awarded The source of funding The date paid The date of event delivery
Files
- Request no. 39234. Received: 14/10/2022, Resolved: 18/10/2022
Pupil Abuse of Teachers and Staff Members
In the past five academic years up to 2021-22: The number of instances of abuse aimed at teachers and staff members from pupils.
Resolution
Repeat of 39235
- Request no. 39235. Received: 14/10/2022, Resolved: 09/11/2022
Pupil Abuse of Teachers and Staff Members
In the past five academic years up to 2021-22: In your Primary and Secondary Schools, the number of instances of abuse aimed at teachers and staff members from pupils.
Files
- Request no. 39236. Received: 14/10/2022, Resolved: 09/11/2022
Roads Services & Street Lighting
Can you please confirm in the City of Edinburgh Council's Road services Department is set up as a trading organisation where it can provide services to other local authorities or to private development companies. Similarly for Street Lighting.
Files
- Request no. 39242. Received: 14/10/2022, Resolved: 29/11/2022
Council buildings with asbestos
How many council buildings contain asbestos
Files
- Request no. 39243. Received: 17/10/2022, Resolved: 15/11/2022
Teachers - Early Retirement
For the past 5 academic years up to 2021-22, total number of teachers who have taken early retirement broken down by year and split between primary and secondary schools
Files
- Request no. 39244. Received: 17/10/2022, Resolved: 14/11/2022
School bus driver disclosure
How often does a school bus driver have to get a full disclosure, do you check up?
Files
- Request no. 39247. Received: 17/10/2022, Resolved: 16/11/2022
Management of large files such as photos and videos
Policies, procedures or guidance; are restrictions imposed on size/type; can staff directly copy media files and what restrictions are imposed; copies of guidance, bulletins and plans requested
Files
- Request no. 39249. Received: 17/10/2022, Resolved: 16/11/2022
Glennevin Groundworks / Cityfibre - Granton Road or Fraser Avenue
Info re works carried out by Glennevin Groundworks on behalf of Cityfibre including process of closing roads, if the Council is paying and info on road closures on Granton Road or Fraser Avenue.
Files
- Request no. 39250. Received: 17/10/2022, Resolved: 14/11/2022
Organisation Structure Chart - Education/Children's Directorate
Organisational structure chart including names, job title and contact details for Education/Children's directorate covering Director, Assistant Director, Head of Service, Service Manager
Resolution
Please refer to the following attached documents:
39250 Structure - Education and Children's Services October 2022
39250 Education and Children’s Services Management Team Contact Information
Files
- Request no. 39254. Received: 17/10/2022, Resolved: 14/11/2022
Parking Charge Notices - Mews aspect of Richmond Terrace
Any changes in policy/personnel in the form of local warden regarding enforcement - were you ticketing permit holders and how many occasions since 1 Jan 22 and copy of policy/guidance Council follows re new signage.
Files
- Request no. 39257. Received: 17/10/2022, Resolved: 14/11/2022
Lothian Pension Fund - Quarterly Investment Reports
Request for quarterly cash-flow reports from Q1 2022 of all private capital investments.
Resolution
Information provided.
- Request no. 39258. Received: 18/10/2022, Resolved: 14/11/2022
Traffic camera outside 99 Newington road, EH9 1QW
There is a traffic camera outside 99 Newington Road, EH9 1QW, Please can you confirm that it is a red light camera for the junction Newington Road / Salisbury Road. Why is the camera not in use?
Resolution
This is a red light camera which is maintained by the Safety Camera Partnership. The provision, operation and maintenance of safety cameras, including red light cameras, is undertaken by Safety Cameras Scotland.
- Request no. 39262. Received: 18/10/2022, Resolved: 14/11/2022
Food Safety Report - Street of Beijing
Request for copies of the two most recent safety reports relating to Street of Beijing, 37 Home Street.
Resolution
Please find attached the copies of inspection reports and revisit reports in relation to the request.
Files
- Request no. 39265. Received: 18/10/2022, Resolved: 14/11/2022
Tenant Grant Fund
Info relating to value of total fund, how many grants paid, total of grants paid, applications rejected and value of same. How many grants were local authority, housing association or private sector tenants; funds remaining or date funds exhausted.
Files
- Request no. 39267. Received: 18/10/2022, Resolved: 14/11/2022
Vision impairment
Request for information for children aged 0-4 known as having vision impairment, no of qualified habilitation specialists employed to support aged 0-18 with impaired vision, no of hours provided each week, allocated budget for 2021-22
Files
- Request no. 39270. Received: 18/10/2022, Resolved: 15/11/2022
Bruntstane Road ETRO
Info re volume and speed of traffic movements along Coillesdene Avenue and average speed during Sept/Oct 2022.
Files
- Request no. 39271. Received: 18/10/2022, Resolved: 15/11/2022
Funerals / Cremations
Request for a list of funerals/cremations organised by W T Dunbar & Sons from 1 August to 31 October 2017.
Resolution
Information not provided.
- Request no. 39272. Received: 18/10/2022, Resolved: 26/10/2022
Housing and Maintenance Contacts
Confirmation of contacts provided are still correct for senior staff members.
Files
- Request no. 39274. Received: 18/10/2022, Resolved: 24/02/2023
Leith Walk between Gayfield Square and McDonald Road
Request for reports of road surface defects, remedial work, road inspection regime and records, confirmation of how often inspected and the road inspection manual in use and other queries relating to the above
Files
- Request no. 39278. Received: 18/10/2022, Resolved: 19/10/2022
Unoccupied Properties
The number of properties in the local authority which are currently unoccupied. If possible please provide a breakdown between commercial and residential properties.
Notes
- 27/10/2022This information is available on the Council's Disclosure Log at:
https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/homepage/10467/freedom-of-information-foi-disclosure-log
Please enter '38224' in the Search field. This similar request was responded to in August 2022.
- 27/10/2022This information is available on the Council's Disclosure Log at:
- Request no. 39280. Received: 19/10/2022, Resolved: 24/11/2022
ASL Teachers & Support Workers
How many ASL teachers and support workers pupils have access to at every secondary school in Edinburgh. With a breakdown per school please. Not including dedicated schools.
- Request no. 39281. Received: 18/10/2022, Resolved: 15/11/2022
Freedom of Information System
Supplier, cost of contract, when contract started and when it expires, total number of FoI requests between 1/10/21 and 1/10/22.
Files
- Request no. 39282. Received: 19/10/2022, Resolved: 15/11/2022
Council Employees
How many employees do you have? A breakdown of the ethnicity of those employees.
Resolution
Please refer to the attached. Numbers of 10 and under have not been provided.
- Request no. 39283. Received: 19/10/2022, Resolved: 16/11/2022
Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure
In the past 12 months, how much has been invested in electric vehicle charging infrastructure?
Files
- Request no. 39286. Received: 19/10/2022, Resolved: 15/11/2022
Geo-environmental assessment - Clovenstone Drive, Edinburgh EH14 3BE
Potential contamination of site - looking for information regarding quality of water, recorded pollution incidents, private water abstraction and other relevant info, also location of any other sites & details
Files
- Request no. 39287. Received: 19/10/2022, Resolved: 15/11/2022
Geo-environmental assessment - Clovenstone Gardens EH14 3EU
Potential contamination of site - looking for information regarding quality of water, recorded pollution incidents, private water abstraction and other relevant info, also location of any other sites & details
Files
- Request no. 39290. Received: 17/10/2022, Resolved: 14/11/2022 11:08:00
Data breach
Various questions
- Request no. 39296. Received: 19/10/2022, Resolved: 16/11/2022
Historic Copies of Minutes
Please provide minutes of 1986 meeting held in East Craigs regarding North Bughtlin Park & correspondence between Wimpey and the Council between 1985 & 1987 relating to the handing over of areas outlined as public open spaces.
Resolution
Request is deemed “manifestly unreasonable under regulation 10(4)(b) of the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 and we are not obliged to respond.
- Request no. 39298. Received: 19/10/2022, Resolved: 16/11/2022
CCTV Footage Glasgow Road
Request for CCTV from Glasgow Road junction with Maybury Road, 06/08/2022.
Resolution
No relevant footage held.
- Request no. 39306. Received: 20/10/2022, Resolved: 15/11/2022
Social workers
For the year 2021/22, what was the total number of days that social workers were absent from work due to mental ill health?
Resolution
Colleagues were absent for 2,256 working days, this is the equivalent of 1.94% working days lost.
- Request no. 39309. Received: 20/10/2022, Resolved: 20/12/2022
Contractors Spending
Can you please provide me with details of the council’s spending with contractors carrying out building work in both of the last two completed calendar years (2020,2021) and the current calendar year to date?
Resolution
Closed - No clarification received.
- Request no. 39310. Received: 20/10/2022, Resolved: 17/11/2022
City of Edinburgh Council Debt to UK Government
The total amount of debt the City Council of Edinburgh owes to the UK government. The total annual amount of debt/money borrowed by the City Council of Edinburgh from the UK government.
Files
- Request no. 39312. Received: 20/10/2022, Resolved: 15/11/2022
Public toilets
Please provide me with the number of public toilets in your local area in a) 2007 and b) 2022 (to date)
Resolution
a) 2007 – 30 Toilets (estimate) we have records from 2015 where 10 were closed
b) 2022 – 20 Toilets- Request no. 39316. Received: 20/10/2022, Resolved: 18/11/2022
Outdoor fitness instructors
The names of the business and the locations (parks) that outdoor fitness instructors in Edinburgh provide classes in. The form that collects this data is found here: https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/park-management-rules/outdoor-fitness-instructors/1
Files
- Request no. 39317. Received: 21/10/2022, Resolved: 16/11/2022
Contaminated Land Enquiry - 171 Turnhouse Road
I would be grateful if you could confirm whether or not the Site is on your list of prioritised sites under Part 2A and, if so, what priority it is considered to be?
Files
- Request no. 39319. Received: 21/10/2022, Resolved: 15/11/2022
Contaminated Land - Colinton Road
Contaminated land consultation request for a site located at Colinton Road, Colinton, Edinburgh. The site is centred approximately E, N: 322146 , 669069
Files
- Request no. 39320. Received: 21/10/2022, Resolved: 18/11/2022 15:57:00
Suicide Prevention for Veterans
Does the local authority have an agreed suicide prevention action plan or strategy? Does the local authority have Armed Forces and Veterans Champion?
- Request no. 39321. Received: 21/10/2022, Resolved: 15/11/2022
Faulty Bin Chute
Was the bin chute at Forteviot House (floor 8) reported as faulty before the date of October 11th?
Resolution
Our records show this job was raised through the Out of Hours Service on 13/11/2022 under Job Reference 3459032/1. The job was completed on Sunday 13/11/2022.
- Request no. 39322. Received: 21/10/2022, Resolved: 18/11/2022
Workforce numbers
1. Please provide me with the number of refuse workers that work for the council in a) 2007 and b) 2022 2. Please provide me with the number of sanitation and cleansing workers that work for the council in a) 2007 and b)2022.
Files
- Request no. 39323. Received: 21/10/2022, Resolved: 24/10/2022
Public Health Funerals Since 21/08/2022
Info relating to funerals carried out where persons died with no next of kin (blood relatives) since 21/8/22 to date.
- Request no. 39324. Received: 21/10/2022, Resolved: 18/11/2022
Council Tax Bands
1.How many properties in the local authority, built after 1991 have been allocated into each Council Tax band for every year since 2007. 2. What is the current percentage of dwellings in the local authority that are in each Council Tax band?
Files
- Request no. 39329. Received: 24/10/2022, Resolved: 22/12/2022
Elsie Inglis Tribute Campaign
I would like copies of all correspondence between Edinburgh City Council, or it’s agencies, and the Elsie Inglis Tribute Campaign or their representatives within the last calendar year.
Resolution
Closed - No clarification received.
- Request no. 39332. Received: 24/10/2022, Resolved: 18/11/2022
Council's Code of Construction Practice
Constitution Street. Whether the property was listed in the schedule which the contractors compiled as per section 7.2a of the Council’s Code of Construction Practice
Resolution
This property was not part of the list compiled for an internal survey.
- Request no. 39340. Received: 24/10/2022, Resolved: 21/11/2022
Breach of Indoor Smoking Ban
Please let me know what action was taken by the Council on receipt of my email dated 17 August 2022 regarding an apparent breach of the indoor smoking ban on 15 August at the Liquid Room, 9c Victoria Street, Edinburgh, EH1 2HE.
Files
- Request no. 39342. Received: 24/10/2022, Resolved: 18/11/2022
Scaffolding - The Glebe, Dalmeny
Cost of scaffolding at The Glebe, Dalmeny, EH30 9TX
Resolution
The costs associated with the scaffolding is £774.05 + VAT.
- Request no. 39343. Received: 24/10/2022, Resolved: 02/11/2022
Business Intelligence Functions
Case management systems used, what BI software is used against systems, do you use KPI management system to collect internal indicator data etc, briefly describe process on how collect data
Resolution
Closed - Invalid request
- Request no. 39344. Received: 24/10/2022, Resolved: 25/10/2022
Head of Digital Transformation
Please provide 1) Name and email address of Head of Digital Transformation if such a role exists OR if that role does not exist 2) name, job title and email address of the person responsible for digital transformation in the council
Resolution
Nicola Harvey, Service Director - Customer & Digital Services
- Request no. 39345. Received: 24/10/2022, Resolved: 06/12/2022
Fleet Operations Workshop
Request for information to assist with a project concerning fleet operations and to complete a template provided.
Resolution
See attached, completed questionnaire and accompanying documents.
Files
- Request no. 39348. Received: 24/10/2022, Resolved: 18/11/2022
CCTV Footage - roundabout exit onto A71 eastbound
Please advise if there are cameras there/if there is any footage and if there is please preserve it and please let us know the process to enable us to obtain a copy.
Resolution
I am afraid that The City of Edinburgh Public Space CCTV section has no coverage of the area in question and consequently we will be unable to provide relevant data.
- Request no. 39349. Received: 24/10/2022, Resolved: 23/11/2022
Balerno High School
From 5/4/2022 to date, information on complaints and Subject Access Requests (SARs).
Files
- Request no. 39350. Received: 24/10/2022, Resolved: 21/11/2022
Balerno High School Teaching Methods
Cost of devices and cost savings for traditional teaching methods; statistical success rates; when iPad/Tablet method rolled out; no of pupils enrolled per year v no of devices available; is traditional method of communication by writing taught?
Files
- Request no. 39351. Received: 24/10/2022, Resolved: 18/11/2022
Surety Fiduciary Bonds
Please supply all holdings of up-to-date surety fiduciary bonds, for quality assurance for the rights and perusal of the members of the public you serve.
Resolution
The City of Edinburgh Council does not hold any surety fiduciary bonds.
- Request no. 39353. Received: 25/10/2022, Resolved: 22/11/2022
A772 Gilmerton Road - Junction with Kingston Avenue and Mount Vernon Road
All information relating to the works carried out on this site subsequent to 25 June 2020 including details of any site inspection carried out by Edinburgh Council and any reports produced further to that site inspection.
Files
- Request no. 39355. Received: 25/10/2022, Resolved: 18/11/2022
Temporary Accommodation
For last five years (2018-2022), how many young people/families have been placed in holiday lets broken down into which platform was used, eg Airbnb/Booking.com; total cost of using this type of accommodation and year by year
Files
- Request no. 39356. Received: 25/10/2022, Resolved: 25/10/2022
HMO Properties in the Area
Request for the list of HMO Properties in the area with the licence holder's name & information.
- Request no. 39358. Received: 25/10/2022, Resolved: 03/11/2022
Edinburgh Council Complaints Procedure
1. Request for copy of complaints procedure. 2. Which companies the Council has a contract or other commercial relationship for enforcement of Council road traffic procedures including details of activities performed
Resolution
Cancelled
- Request no. 39360. Received: 25/10/2022, Resolved: 05/12/2022
Homeless Relocation
No. of homeless families relocated to housing (even temporary) outside local authority area 2018 to 2022; postcode for new accommodation or as much info on distance from local authority; no of families 20 miles or more from desired location.
Files
- Request no. 39361. Received: 25/10/2022, Resolved: 18/11/2022
2022-2023 Primary One Deferral Data
No of requests for further year of early learning and childcare whose 5th birthday between day after the school start date in Aug 2022 and Dec 2022; breakdown of numbers; no of places Council provided funding for; and additional other questions
Files
- Request no. 39363. Received: 25/10/2022, Resolved: 22/11/2022
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Masks
Current stocks of Health & Social Care Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Masks; where you receive or purchase your PPE Masks from; type of face masks which you stock and the individual volumes - number of fitted masks, number of non-fitted masks.
Files
- Request no. 39364. Received: 25/10/2022, Resolved: 22/11/2022
Warm Banks/Spaces
Has Council approved plans for warm banks/spaces, if so, how many and further questions.
Files
- Request no. 39366. Received: 25/10/2022, Resolved: 22/11/2022
Education Complaints
In past 5 years academic years to 2021-22, no of complaints re political bias/interference received; no of complaints primary and secondary schools received re course content of history, politics and modern studies.
Files
- Request no. 39367. Received: 25/10/2022, Resolved: 22/11/2022
Health and Wellbeing Census
In your local authorities schools can I get the completion rates of the health and wellbeing survey for the local authority as a whole and schools individually.
Files
- Request no. 39368. Received: 25/10/2022, Resolved: 07/12/2022
School Meal Take Up
For past 5 academic years, in primary and secondary schools, can you provide take up rate for school lunches; what satisfaction surveys have been taken re meal satisfaction/quality - what work has been done; what are results of these surveys?
Files
- Request no. 39369. Received: 25/10/2022, Resolved: 22/11/2022
School Safety
For past 5 academic years in primary and secondary schools, no of weapons, banned substances and alcohol confiscated
Files
- Request no. 39372. Received: 26/10/2022, Resolved: 22/12/2022
Developer Contributions - Cammo
Details of developer contributions paid to the Council for new estate at Cammo. If such donations relate to the pulling a functional bus service from an established community.
Resolution
Closed - No clarification received.
- Request no. 39374. Received: 26/10/2022, Resolved: 23/11/2022
Noise Complaints - Forrest Road
I would like details of all noise complaints made in relation to Forrest Road from the 1st January 2015 until 15th March 2019. Please can you include correspondence with the licensee Caledonia Inns Ltd. if possible?
Files
- Request no. 39375. Received: 26/10/2022, Resolved: 23/11/2022
Edinburgh Airport Road Traffic Congestion
Request for info relating to average level of congestion and travel time annually and per month; average delay for surrounding roads monthly and how compares with other roads not leading to airport, but in the nearby area.
Files
- Request no. 39377. Received: 26/10/2022, Resolved: 22/11/2022
Short Term Holiday Lets
Percentage of lets likely to be awarded a licence under Edinburgh Council's short term lets control zone and request for all impact assessments re reduced tourist accommodation
Files
- Request no. 39380. Received: 26/10/2022, Resolved: 28/11/2022
Short Breaks and Respite, Stair Climbers and Stairlifts
No of respite/short breaks granted per financial year from April 2019 to date; do we fund breaks outwith local authority border; is there a cap on funding? No of stair climbers/stairlifts provided over same period, no of floor lifts installed
- Request no. 39382. Received: 26/10/2022, Resolved: 23/11/2022
Fly-Tipping 2019/20 to 2021/22
No. of fly-tipping incidents reported; no. of fixed penalty notices issued for same; no. passed to the COPFS; no. of convictions. Breakdown by 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22.
Files
- Request no. 39383. Received: 26/10/2022, Resolved: 23/11/2022
Pest Controllers in Schools
No of times pest controllers sent to schools, including details of incidents for 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23 to date
Files
- Request no. 39384. Received: 24/10/2022, Resolved: 12/12/2022
Reports of Incidents - Cycle Lane Divider, Gilmerton Road Edinburgh
Request for reports of incidents involving these bases in the 12 months up to 4 November 2021
Files
- Request no. 39385. Received: 26/10/2022, Resolved: 11/01/2023
Queensferry High School Video
Information re purpose video was commissioned and created, who decided, were Glass Bullet Media paid to create and edit; how much was paid and other questions
Files
- Request no. 39392. Received: 26/10/2022, Resolved: 09/01/2023
Privately Managed Temporary Accommodation
A list of the private housing providers the council has used in the last 3 financial years (2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22) to place people in temporary accommodation and other information.
Files
- Request no. 39393. Received: 26/10/2022, Resolved: 23/11/2022
Teaching Posts
List of currently vacant teaching posts in your local authority which have been advertised on more than one occasion. How many applications were received? What is the longest that any currently vacant teaching post has been unfilled?
Files
- Request no. 39394. Received: 27/10/2022, Resolved: 24/11/2022
Safecall Report
Please provide details of the Safecall report presented in private to the GRBV committee on June 14 2021, either the full report or an outline of what it discussed? Safecall investigation into concerns about the CJSWS?
Files
- Request no. 39395. Received: 27/10/2022, Resolved: 28/11/2022
Metered Electricity Costs
What the current metered electricity cost to the council as in £ per kWh i.e. £0.35 per kWh, for the likes of traffic lights, street lights and electric vehicle chargers, which the council operates?
Files
- Request no. 39396. Received: 27/10/2022, Resolved: 22/11/2022
15-18 Montagu Terrace, Edinburgh, Statutory Repair Scheme
What is the current status of the above project as far as CEC is concerned.
Resolution
We have checked our records and can advise that all projects at 15-18 Montagu Terrace have been finalised and invoiced to property owners.
- Request no. 39397. Received: 27/10/2022, Resolved: 23/11/2022
A900, Elm Row, Edinburgh
Any written or electronic communication detailing all reports of road surface defects at Elm Row, from January 2022 to date. Any remedial work; roads inspection; road maintenance; reported complaints; any incidents and last inspection.
Files
- Request no. 39403. Received: 27/10/2022, Resolved: 24/11/2022
Sign Language Provision
In your Primary and Secondary Schools how many teachers and staff are able to fully communicate via British Sign Language? And in Primary and Secondary Schools how many hours are spent on teaching British sign language a year?
Files
- Request no. 39409. Received: 27/10/2022, Resolved: 31/10/2022
Empty Homes Officer Posts
Please advise how many Empty Homes Officers you employ.
Resolution
Cancelled by requester.
- Request no. 39410. Received: 27/10/2022, Resolved: 23/11/2022
Housing Buy-Back Policy
Please provide - a link to your published policy to help me understand how your policy works; Whether buybacks are for (a) general stock, or (b) limited to strategic purchases and other information.
Files
- Request no. 39411. Received: 27/10/2022, Resolved: 31/10/2022
Business Rates FOI - 27th October 22
Up-to-date list of all business (non-residential) property rates data for local authority that currently hold a credit on their account (included specified information) and also date data was generated
Resolution
Please see previous response under reference 39064.
Files
- Request no. 39412. Received: 27/10/2022, Resolved: 24/11/2022
Peter Tobin's Death & Cremation
Request for all documentation held by the Council relating to death of Peter Tobin including exchanges with Scottish Prison Service and other relevant authorities re cremation/scattering of ashes at sea.
Files
- Request no. 39414. Received: 27/10/2022, Resolved: 24/11/2022
Food Standards Inspections
Details of inspections for primary schools and care facilities which have failed in the past year - Newcraighall Primary School, St Marys RC Primary School, Caring in Craigmillar and The Action Group
Resolution
Please see attached.
Files
- Request no. 39415. Received: 27/10/2022, Resolved: 07/12/2022
Council Asset Sales in Edinburgh
Not including Right To Buy Homes, what buildings and land has the council sold between October 2013 and September this year and for how much?
Files
- Request no. 39416. Received: 27/10/2022, Resolved: 01/12/2022
Centre for the Moving Image (CMI) Charity
All communications between Council and CMI in past 3 years; any documents relating to decision not to provide CMI with additional funding this year; minutes of any meetings in past 2 years
Files
- Request no. 39417. Received: 27/10/2022, Resolved: 01/12/2022
Centre for the Moving Image (CMI) Charity.
Reports, correspondence and communications between Council and Scottish Government; Council and Creative Scotland; Council and MPs, MSPs and Councillors - in the past year
Files
- Request no. 39418. Received: 27/10/2022, Resolved: 23/11/2022
Cycling Mileage for In-Work Journeys
I would like to find out if Edinburgh City Council pays cycling mileage for in-work journeys.
Files
- Request no. 39419. Received: 28/10/2022, Resolved: 25/11/2022
Accident History - Portobello Prom / Seafield Road East
You have made changes at the beginning of Portobello Prom where it meets Seafield Road East ‘to deter pavement parking and make it safer’. Please provide details of the accident history at this location, to demonstrate the need to make it safer.
Files
- Request no. 39420. Received: 28/10/2022, Resolved: 28/12/2022
Public Buildings
Council owned public buildings broken down into categories; are they listed or in Conservation area? Which properties have timber windows? Can it be recorded against each property?
Resolution
Closed - no clarification received.
- Request no. 39421. Received: 28/10/2022, Resolved: 28/11/2022
Homeless Shelter Beds
How many homeless shelter beds have been available in the local authority in each year since 1999.
Resolution
Bethany Christian Trust operated the Care Shelter.
From 2020 the Care Shelter changed to the Welcome Centre Rapid Accommodation – since then the Council has funded up to 65 rooms each year, operated by Bethany Christian Trust.- Request no. 39422. Received: 28/10/2022, Resolved: 24/11/2022
Events and Performances Subsidies
A full list of all grants, subsidies and other monies, given by the City of Edinburgh Council to event producers and performing arts organisations, for both actual and intended events and performances, held in the city during 2022.
Files
- Request no. 39424. Received: 28/10/2022, Resolved: 25/11/2022
2022 SQA Entries and Results
2022 SQA Entries and Results, for Nat 5, Higher and Advanced Higher for James Gillespies High School, by Subject and Sex.
Files
- Request no. 39425. Received: 28/10/2022, Resolved: 23/11/2022
UK Government's Household Support Scheme
Amount allocated for 6/10/2021-30/9/2022; amount distributed to households by 1/10/2022; amount allocated for 1/10/2022-31/3/2023; and various other questions.
Files
- Request no. 39426. Received: 28/10/2022, Resolved: 25/11/2022
Allocation of Social Housing
Why are Edinburgh born people in housing need being ignored in house allocation, whilst others appear to be allocated houses in Edinburgh, some of whom have no connection to the area?
Files
- Request no. 39429. Received: 27/10/2022, Resolved: 23/11/2022
Calton Hill Park Management Committee
Copies of the minutes of all meetings of the Calton Hill Park management committee or similar bodies over the period since the adoption of the last Calton Hill Management Plan.
Files
- Request no. 39430. Received: 28/10/2022, Resolved: 25/11/2022
West Granton Road, Edinburgh EH5 1HZ
1. Records of all inspections carried out from 2014. 2. Records of all repairs and other works carried out at the locus from 2014 and for 6 months after the accident.
Resolution
Please see the attached Site History Report.
Files
- Request no. 39431. Received: 28/10/2022, Resolved: 23/11/2022
Retail Businesses Investigated for Fraudulent Activity
Is Edinburgh City Council currently investigating any retail businesses with customer facing premises which predominantly sell sweets/candy for fraudulent activity (such as the avoidance of business rate bills or other civil or criminal offences)?
Files
- Request no. 39436. Received: 31/10/2022, Resolved: 02/11/2022
Pedestrianisation of George Street
Figure of lost parking revenue is given as £1.6m - can you clarify how Cllr Arthur got to this? Figures for parking on George Street are £6 per hour for 10 hours per day. This would mean closer to £5million per year in revenue.
Resolution
The figures used by the journalist in the article appear to have been based on the actual Pay and Display income from George Street in the 2019-20 financial year.
- Request no. 39438. Received: 31/10/2022, Resolved: 28/11/2022
Road Markings - West Fairbrae Crescent, Edinburgh, EH11
I would like to know when the road markings for the above location were last painted.
Resolution
This is not recorded - Our Asset Management system records only go back to 2015. There have been no recorded works since 2015.
- Request no. 39441. Received: 31/10/2022, Resolved: 28/11/2022
Analogue to Digital Telecare
Arrangements in preparation for move from analogue to digital care equipment and further questions.
Files
- Request no. 39442. Received: 31/10/2022, Resolved: 06/12/2022
Graham Street - Building Warrant 18/02407
Documents, applications and relevant correspondence re planning permission for building works undertaken by Colorado Construction Company on 15/1/2019 adjacent to the premises situated at 21 Graham Street.
Files
- Request no. 39443. Received: 31/10/2022, Resolved: 28/11/2022
Castle Street - Roadworks
Please could you tell me how many times in the last 12 months there has been construction, utilities, repairs, or any other services work on Castle Street that has required the road or pavement to be dug up.
Files
- Request no. 39444. Received: 31/10/2022, Resolved: 28/11/2022
Short-Term Let Planning Permission / Certificate of Lawfulness Applications
No. of applications granted every month over last 12-24 months, no. short-term apps. submitted and refused; how many short term apps. for certificate of lawfulness been refused due to not operating during Covid-19 pandemic?
Files
- Request no. 39447. Received: 31/10/2022, Resolved: 22/12/2022
Culture Related Spend
Total spending for financial year 2007/08, 2014/15, 2018/19, 2021/22, 2022/23 and predicted for 2023/24; any briefings/budget templates prepared for senior officers or elected members for 2023/24 for spend and budget setting
Files
- Request no. 39448. Received: 31/10/2022, Resolved: 05/12/2022
Pupil Expulsions 2019 to 2022
Could you tell me how many pupils have been expelled in each of these years: (a) 2019, (b) 2020, (c) 2021, (d) 2022 to date and the reason why.
Files
- Request no. 39450. Received: 31/10/2022, Resolved: 28/12/2022
SNP and Scottish Greens email correspondence
All email correspondence received from an @snp.org email or @scottishgreens.org.uk, including any attachments between 18 May 2021 and present date.
Resolution
Closed. No clarification received.
- Request no. 39452. Received: 31/10/2022, Resolved: 28/11/2022
Inspection of Suitable Condition - Dalry Road
Dates in first half of 2022 that Dalry Road was inspected to ensure road was in suitable condition, e.g. checking for potholes. How does this compare to the frequency that the Council say that it should be inspected?
Files
- Request no. 39453. Received: 31/10/2022, Resolved: 28/11/2022
Language Guides
Query as to whether guides have been produced and if not, has there been one in the last 3 financial years (2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22) and also costs
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- Request no. 39454. Received: 31/10/2022, Resolved: 28/11/2022
Library Staff and Opening Hours
No. of full time staff and funding for financial years from 2016/17 to 2022/23; Whether opening hours have decreased and no. of buildings permanently closed.
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- Request no. 39461. Received: 24/10/2022, Resolved: 15/12/2022
Building Standards Dates
To request start and completion dates in relation to Leonardo Hotel extension on Jeffrey Street. Also date of last communication regarding redevelopment of Old Royal High School.
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- Request no. 39492. Received: 31/10/2022, Resolved: 30/11/2022
Teachers
Various questions relating to probationer teachers; permanent/temporary contracts; supply teachers; no of hours worked; additional funding given etc
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- Request no. 39583. Received: 28/10/2022, Resolved: 15/11/2022
HMP Edinburgh - Poor Food Service Practice at Weekends
Request for all information contained in las food preparation/service inspection report produced by our authority in relation to HMP Edinburgh
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